Ψαλμοί 129

1 ᾠδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου εἰπάτω δὴ Ισραηλ

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

2 πλεονάκις ἐπολέμησάν με ἐκ νεότητός μου καὶ γὰρ οὐκ ἠδυνήθησάν μοι

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου μου ἐτέκταινον οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί ἐμάκρυναν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν

The plowers plowed on my back: they made long their furrows.

4 κύριος δίκαιος συνέκοψεν αὐχένας ἁμαρτωλῶν

The LORD is righteous: he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5 αἰσχυνθήτωσαν καὶ ἀποστραφήτωσαν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω πάντες οἱ μισοῦντες Σιων

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

6 γενηθήτωσαν ὡς χόρτος δωμάτων ὃς πρὸ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐξηράνθη

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which wither before it grows up:

7 οὗ οὐκ ἐπλήρωσεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ὁ θερίζων καὶ τὸν κόλπον αὐτοῦ ὁ τὰ δράγματα συλλέγων

With which the mower fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

8 καὶ οὐκ εἶπαν οἱ παράγοντες εὐλογία κυρίου ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς εὐλογήκαμεν ὑμᾶς ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be on you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.